After I got religion, my father delighted in needling me. One day during a visit
home we were walking together down a hot, dusty country road. "Tell me," he
said, and I could hear the chortle in his voice as he got ready to skewer me with
his logic, "can God make a rock so big He can't lift it"
"I don't know," I snapped back, "But He can make a man He can't save."
While this doesn't answer the question, I'm tempted to say that it responds to
the question. (Similar to Jesus' "non-answer" of the question, "Should we
pay taxes to Caesar or not?" Response: Render to Caesar the things that are
Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's (Matthew 22:21).)
I'm also reminded of the famous anecdote mentioned by St. Augustine:
Behold, I answer to him who asks, "What was God doing before He made heaven and earth?" I answer not, as a certain person is reported to have done facetiously (avoiding the pressure of the question), "He was preparing hell," says he, "for those who pry into mysteries."
Book 11, Chapter 12 of the Confessions of St Augustine.
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